What does the device do if it runs into a bad sector either hard drive? Does it have any form of error correction? will it just skip and continue?
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No it does not have error correction. It will just not write to it especially if you have done a search for bad sectors check and so labeled the bad sectors as such.
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It will copy your MAC also - stand alone copy without a PC/MAC - Image firmware built into the device...-Gerry
25945
It will continue to copy. You would need to run a utility like Advanced System Care that checks for disk errors.
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I have not had any of these problems. I have a Mac, so, I am not cloning. There is cloning software for the PC only, that is included. I use the Syba to show 2 separate hard drives on my desktop, & move info & pictures back & forth, storage, etc. I have not had any "bad segments" to copy. It does not correct anything that I know of.
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The bad drive can be replaced while the unit is running and will rebuild itself, as long as the "Mirroring" default was not changed. New drives can be ordered from the Western Digital site.
314114
No, This is a drive for DVR's both TV set top boxes and CCTV DVR's it does not have error correction. People who used it for conventional PC's experienced crashes and other problems
397001
Great minds...Getting this for my T400. Over 16,000 bad sectors on my whirley-type disk. Can Amazon deliver this in time?
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None but its independent of the os so it should function like any other jump drive
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That depends on the kind of failure you have on your external drive. If the drive has died, then nothing to do. If the drive works, then you should be able to recover. I rather do that connecting the drive to a PC directly.
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I have two 4TB drives of different models. I'm running Windows 8, and I occassionally have to run "chkdsk /f y:" due to corrupted disks. I have 2 3TB drives that don't have this issue.
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My experience may not be valid. It seems that 2 of the drives failed before I noticed the problem. My past experience with RAID let me to believe I would be notified by the RAID manager software if there was a problem. I replaced one of the bad drives and lost all the data. Other people have not been so unlucky. The unit does come with multiple ways to connect it to your PC, including firewire and USB 3. To get USB 3 connectivity on my machine, I had to buy a USB 3 card. It will also talk to USB 2. One more thing. When I had problems, I called their help line. The person I spoke to had no idea whatsoever what a RAID was, what it would or would not do, etc. This unit seems to be manufactured by a Canadian company that has outsourced its support. Bad idea. Very bad. I junked the unit and got a SansDigital external RAID. It is USB3, has a good monitor program and I am quite pleased with it.
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I suggest you run disk check on your drive. See if there are any bad sectors and lock them out. It sounds like the drive may be freezing. I'd look at returning the drive.
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I don't know. My problem with the drive was the format function would fail to ever complete.
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Call them. Always have 2 backups! I lost a lot of data with that hard drive, mine failed after a short time
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I once had a G-Tech drive blow up...complete with smoke! They took the drive back and sent me a refurbished one.If you haven't called them, you should. I sent back the 4T I bought; I couldn't get it to turn on.
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Don't know, mine failed after 90 days. Not sure 3rd-party units are ready for prime time; OE units in laptops, etc. seem to be OK. If data is critical, stick to proven tech: mechanical HDs. Sometimes older is better.
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I am not familiar with the drive you have but if the connections match, give it a go. In my situation, it was the PC that crashed with a healthy hard drive. All I had to do was remove the hard drive from the PC and hook it up to Apricorn and I was back in business. I wish you all the luck!
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OMG, NO! We had one fail without notice and it was a major problem. We thought the dual drive on ours would be a safe backup system, but the entire drive failed. A service company worked on it and we were fortunate to retrieve most of the data, but it was a very close call and expensive. Now we have TWO separate backup drives on all systems.
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I am not sure. But like you I am also having problems with my hard drive. It has to be replaced.
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Nah it only comes on intermittently, when it does it comes up garbage, i eventually got it to work and managed to recover some files off with recovery software but lost most of the stuff that was on it. Tried formatting etc and regardless of which computer its plugged into, it only connects intermittently and corrupts the data.